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- From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
- Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.195738.10020@newstand.syr.edu>
- References: <baloo.721011468@mik.uky.edu> <130@complex.complex.is> <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 19:57:38 EST
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- In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
- >In <130@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
- >>baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
- >>>Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask, and do away with the 640k memory barrier?
- >>No. Basically DOS 6.0 is just DOS 5.0 with a bunch of new utilities bundled.
- >>The big changes will wait for DOS 7 - if that ever will be released.
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- >How long will the DOS users be led as a donkey to the water??? .,..
- >I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader. ....
- >I "Love it" when I'm running a program under DOS on a machine that has (say
- >4MB) and getting the error message: Not enough memory (knowing that that
- >memory came from the drasted 640k memory pool.) When I _know_ that there
- >are at least 3MB more memory available.
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- If DOS pains you so much, why don't you drop this newsgroup. Or alternately,
- when Einar.OS is available, drop us all a line.
- Maybe this guy should throw away his $ 200 AT, and buy a new Sparc IPX and
- SoftPC, for about $ 10,000 he can almost replace it just perfectly.
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